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Fearful vs Haunted - What's the difference?

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Fearful is a related term of haunted.


As adjectives the difference between fearful and haunted

is that fearful is frightening while haunted is of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

As a verb haunted is

(haunt).

fearful

English

Alternative forms

* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

Adjective

(fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
    • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

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    haunted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
    • The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.
  • Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
  • Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
    • a haunted expression

    Verb

    (head)
  • (haunt)
    • According to local legend, a ghost has haunted the mansion for two hundred years.

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